LENS; Kodak Moments From the 20th Century

By KERRI MACDONALD and DARCY EVELEIGH

Published: March 4, 2012

While the Eastman Kodak Company's early picture contests were national - and by the 1930s, international - there was no shortage of submissions from intrepid New York photographers.

Werner Weile, who lived in Yonkers, N.Y., won $25 for his photo of Bernard Reinckens, the baby peeking out from behind a blanket (Slide 6). And the Harlem resident Sidney Bernstein submitted a street portrait of a young boy in Far Rockaway, Queens, named Earl Johnston - one of the few African-American subjects to appear in the albums (Slide 3).

Of course, it's no surprise that other photographers in New York made scenes from the city - the old Pennsylvania Station (Slide 1) or the Barclay-Vesey Building (Slide 7) - their subjects.

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Some of these photos will appear in the Metropolitan section on Sunday. All of the images are from the Kodak Historical Collection at the Rush Rhees Library. Additional reporting by Peter Moskowitz. Follow @nytimesphoto, @kerrimac and @PeterMoskowitz on Twitter.

This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.

PHOTOS: PRIZEWINNERS: In 1929, the year of the first major Eastman Kodak Company photo contest, a picture of the Barclay-Vesey Building and the Hudson River, top, by Franz Kraus of Manhattan, won $5. Werner Weile of Yonkers won $25 in 1940 for his Rolliflex photo of Bernard Reinckens, left. Dr. S. J. Ruzicka of Jackson Heights, Queens, won $250 in 1929 for his photo, shot on a Kodak Icarette, of Pennsylvania Station.; IMAGES OF THE '40S: In 1943, Sidney Bernstein of Harlem submitted a photo of young Earl Johnston, above, shot in Far Rockaway with a Super Sport Dolly camera. A hockey photo by Bernard Bernbaum of the Bronx, shot in 1941 on a Graflex, won $10. (PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE KODAK HISTORICAL COLLECTION AT THE RUSH RHEES LIBRARY)